A single punching bag hung from a concrete roof at some distance from the indoor hall of Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Stadium in Guwahati, where the India Open boxing was in full swing in 2019. Outside the arena, the Indian women's boxing team coach Rafaelle Bergamasco spotted Pooja Rani among a group of boxers and took her aside. A month …
Despite being caught between a rock and a hard place, Raffaele Bergamasco has not lost hope. Even as Bergamasco, the foreign coach for Indian women boxers, is leading a solitary life on the campus of the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Delhi, his heart is with his ailing wife and daughters in Italy. Fortunately, today we have this social media and …
“Mujhe states ke naam na sunai dete hai aur na dikhai dete hai, sirf ek mulk ka naam sunai deta hai. Raffaele Bergamasco, the Performance Director of Indian women’s boxing, has very little idea about Bollywood movies but astonishingly, his coaching methodology bears great resemblance to the movie’s script. India women’s boxing Performance Director Raffaele Bergamasco with MC Mary Kom …
